Scribd social publishing site dumps Flash in favour of HTML5

MacWorld: Social publishing site Scribd is making a big bet on HTML5 and scrapping its three-year-old Adobe Flash investment.

The site, which features content from such publishers as Simon & Schuster and the Chicago Tribune, will soon have more than 200,000 pages of HTML5-based content, the company said. Plans call for converting tens of millions of documents representing billions of web pages.